When did you get into beards?
The beard thing – well I’ve always had some sort of beard or long
sideboards or moustache, I taught myself how to look after it and
I seem to have by accident ended up looking like a traditional
barber. People started coming from a long way away to get their
beards done here, like Loughborough! My friend Tom runs the
Bedfordshire Beard co – actually he lives in Arlesey, anyway he
realised his Mum’s essential oils were better than any products on
the market so started making his own beard oil and selling it to
his friends and then we were the first official stockists. I’ve started
doing beards at music festivals too, last year Latitude Festival got
in touch and wanted us to come along and be the festival’s official
beard groomers. I’ve done Standon Calling as well and am about
to go to the V Festival. Its incredibly busy all weekend.
It started in our dinning room with just
friends and relatives and it got busy quickly the
customer base grew and we had to take on a
little shop – lots of musicians and artists started
coming here and its really gone from that.
People also like it that we use vegan approved
products and we have that ethical approach.
I know you’re in a band because I’ve been to one of your gigs,
tell me about
the band?
I play the drums,
I’ve played the
drums since I
was a child and
always been in
a band since I
was about 13
my first drum
kit when I was
12. We’re called
The Saboteurs
and there are six
of us, actually
we’ve got a new
member he’s in
Arlesey too, Tim
Wheeler, his dad
had that lovely
old fire engine
that was targeted by thieves.
We rehearse as much as we can, we
do gigs, its difficult because the other
band members are mostly professional
musicians which, when I formed the band
I thought was cool because they’ve got
experience but its not when they spend
three months in LA with Lana Del Ray! ➜
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